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A Hunger Artist (Paperback): Franz Kafka A Hunger Artist (Paperback)
Franz Kafka
R122 Discovery Miles 1 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories: Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka
R222 Discovery Miles 2 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Only yesterday, Gregor Samsa was a meek salesman, browbeaten by his unappreciative employer and depended on fiercely by his ungrateful family. This morning, Gregor awakens to discover that, overnight, he has been transformed into a monstrous insect. As Gregor frantically tries to conceal his predicament, neither his family nor his unsympathetic employer accept that a terrible metamorphosis has upended his existence. Is Gregor’s condition only temporary? Will he eventually revert back to the person he was and resume his normal life? Or might he have to accept that his transformation is only an outward expression of how he—and those in his life—actually see him? First published in 1915, Kafka’s best-known tale has inspired numerous interpretations for more than a century and helped to establish the term “Kafkaesque” as a reference to a bizarre and nightmarish experience. This collection of his short fiction, in a new translation, includes more than 30 of his short stories and sketches, including “In the Penal Colony,” “The Stoker,” “The Judgment,” “A Country Doctor,” “A Hunger Artist,” and more.  

Die Verwandlung - in GroĂźdruckschrift: Franz Kafka Die Verwandlung - in GroĂźdruckschrift
Franz Kafka
R1,028 Discovery Miles 10 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Metamorphosis (Paperback, Main): A.L. Lloyd The Metamorphosis (Paperback, Main)
A.L. Lloyd; Franz Kafka
R311 Discovery Miles 3 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The story itself, Kafka's most famous, hardly needs describing - a travelling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up one morning to find he has been transformed into an enormous bug - but Faber Finds is offering something rare, the very first English translation which has been out of print for over sixty years.

This pioneering translation by A. L. Lloyd was first published in 1937. A. L. Lloyd was multi-talented: ethnomusicologist, journalist, radio and television broadcaster, and translator. In this his centenary year (2008) Faber Finds is celebrating him in his first and last roles. His major work, Folk Song in England, is being reissued as are his Lorca and Kafka translations. As well as both being published in 1937 both were firsts; has anyone else had Spanish and German translations published in the same year?

It should also be mentioned that A. L. Lloyd was a lifelong communist. It is a delicious irony therefore that one of the first reviews of the Kafka was by Evelyn Waugh in the short-lived "Night" "and Day"; it was a good one too.

The Essential Kafka - The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Paperback, UK ed.): Franz Kafka The Essential Kafka - The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Paperback, UK ed.)
Franz Kafka; Series edited by Keith Carabine; Translated by John R. Williams; Introduction by John R. Williams 2
R144 R112 Discovery Miles 1 120 Save R32 (22%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very end, a relentless atmosphere of disorientation. Superficially about bureaucracy, it is in the last resort a description of the absurdity of 'normal' human nature. Still more enigmatic is The Castle. Is it an allegory of a quasi-feudal system giving way to a new freedom for the subject? The search by a central European Jew for acceptance into a dominant culture? A spiritual quest for grace or salvation? An individual's struggle between his sense of independence and his need for approval? Is it all of these things? And K? Is he opportunist, victim, or an outsider battling against elusive authority? Finally, in his fables, Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance, and no reliable guidance to resolving our existential and emotional uncertainties and anxieties.

21 Short Tales (Hardcover Library Edition) (Hardcover): Franz Kafka 21 Short Tales (Hardcover Library Edition) (Hardcover)
Franz Kafka
R645 Discovery Miles 6 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Das Schloss - in GroĂźdruckschrift: Franz Kafka Das Schloss - in GroĂźdruckschrift
Franz Kafka
R2,119 R2,012 Discovery Miles 20 120 Save R107 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Metamorphosis (Hardcover): Franz Kafka, Michael Hoffman Metamorphosis (Hardcover)
Franz Kafka, Michael Hoffman
R270 R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Save R59 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. One morning, ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach. Metamorphosis, Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, is one of the twentieth century's most influential works of fiction, and is accompanied here by two more classic stories. 'He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him' - Vladimir Nabokov

Forschungen eines Hundes / Der Bau (GroĂźdruck) (Hardcover): Franz Kafka Forschungen eines Hundes / Der Bau (GroĂźdruck) (Hardcover)
Franz Kafka
R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Metamorphosis (Hardcover): Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis (Hardcover)
Franz Kafka
R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Historisch-kritische Ausgabe Sämtlicher Handschriften, Drucke Und Typoskripte - Oxforder Oktavheft 1 & 2 + Commntary + 1... Historisch-kritische Ausgabe Sämtlicher Handschriften, Drucke Und Typoskripte - Oxforder Oktavheft 1 & 2 + Commntary + 1 Cd-rom + 1 Facsimile (ein Landarzt)... (Hardcover)
Franz Kafka, Roland Reuss, Peter Staengle
R845 Discovery Miles 8 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
El Castillo / The Castle: Franz Kafka El Castillo / The Castle
Franz Kafka
R422 R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Save R61 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Metamorphosis (Hardcover): Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis (Hardcover)
Franz Kafka
R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
La MĂ©tamorphose - Une nouvelle de Franz Kafka: Franz Kafka La MĂ©tamorphose - Une nouvelle de Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
franz kafka vol 1 (Hardcover): Franz Kafka franz kafka vol 1 (Hardcover)
Franz Kafka
R1,105 Discovery Miles 11 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Metamorphosis (Hardcover): Franz Kafka Metamorphosis (Hardcover)
Franz Kafka
R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Dans la Colonie pénitentiaire - Une nouvelle de Franz Kafka: Franz Kafka Dans la Colonie pénitentiaire - Une nouvelle de Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lettre au père - Un essai de Franz Kafka: Franz Kafka Lettre au père - Un essai de Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Historisch-kritische Ausgabe Sämtlicher Handschriften, Drucke Und Typoskripte - Oxforder Quartheft 17 + Commentary + 1... Historisch-kritische Ausgabe Sämtlicher Handschriften, Drucke Und Typoskripte - Oxforder Quartheft 17 + Commentary + 1 Facsimile + 1 Cd-rom... (Hardcover)
Franz Kafka, Peter Staengle, Roland Reuss
R761 Discovery Miles 7 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Franz Kafka - Short Stories (Hardcover): Franz Kafka Franz Kafka - Short Stories (Hardcover)
Franz Kafka
R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Franz Kafka Vol 2 (Hardcover): Franz Kafka Franz Kafka Vol 2 (Hardcover)
Franz Kafka
R992 Discovery Miles 9 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Metamorphosis (Hardcover): Franz Kafka Metamorphosis (Hardcover)
Franz Kafka; Translated by David Wyllie
R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Letters to Milena (Paperback): Franz Kafka Letters to Milena (Paperback)
Franz Kafka
R299 R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Save R56 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech, and their relationship quickly developed into a deep attachment. Such was his feeling for her that Kafka showed her his diaries and, in doing so, laid bare his heart and his conscience. While at times Milena's 'genius for living' gave Kafka new life, it ultimately exhausted him, and their relationship was to last little over two years. In 1924 Kafka died in a sanatorium near Vienna, and Milena died in 1944 at the hands of the Nazis, leaving these letters as a moving record of their relationship.

The Metamorphosis (Hardcover, Unabridged ed.): Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis (Hardcover, Unabridged ed.)
Franz Kafka
R409 Discovery Miles 4 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Trial (Hardcover): Franz Kafka The Trial (Hardcover)
Franz Kafka
R775 Discovery Miles 7 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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